Harmer, Alfred C
manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 8, 1825, in Germantown, Pa. He was elected a member of the city councils of Philadelphia in 1856, and served four years. He was elected recorder of deeds for Philadelphia in 1860, and served three years.
He was a delegate to the national convention at Chicago; and was elected to the forty-secondand forty-third congresses.
He was again a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, fortysixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. Having served a quarter of a century, the longest consecutive service, he is known as the Father of the House.